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The 10 Best Gaming Gadgets of CES 2013

Posted by Wajahat Malik Tuesday, August 13, 2013 0 comments

Best Gaming Gadgets of CES 2013
Words by Angelina Montanez As you know, CES is the biggest tech expo of the year and is best known for showcasing (and announcing) all the coolest, cutting-edge gadgets set to launch in the near future. We’re talking about smartphones, laptop/tablet convertibles, UDH TVs, and now, gaming devices. This year’s show introduced new groundbreaking gaming peripherals with the majority focused on making an impact on the mobile scene. All in all, there was something for every hardcore gamer to cheer for. So if a powerful gaming tower, professional headsets for tournaments, or seek a handheld capable of playing PC games is on your wish list this year, you might want to take look over the 10 Best Gaming Gadgets of CES 2013

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10 Tech-Savvy Hotel Innovations

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You probably used some form of technology to book your room. You're Instagramming like a maniac. You've brought along your favorite travel gadgets. So it's only fitting that modern hotels jump on the tech bandwagon themselves. We started taking note of some ways that technology is making your hotel stay even easier; herewith some of our favorite tech-savvy accommodations across the country.

1. Check In Easier

1hyatt-chicago-checkin.jpg In addition to the traditional front desk experience, the Hyatt Regency Chicago offers check-in via a lobby ambassador holding a special iPad. Guests can also use a nearby kiosk to select a room, inquire about an upgrade, and obtain an RFID key. (That's a card key with a fancy chip inside, so it can't become demagnetized, saving you those frustrating calls/trips back to the front desk!)
Similarly, Radisson is currently experimenting with kiosks at four pilot locations (La Crosse, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, and Seattle). Guests can virtually check in online 24 hours ahead, receive a confirmation email with a barcode, scan that barcode in the lobby, and receive their key.
What to do if you're ready, but your room isn't? ARIA Las Vegas will take your cell number, give you your key, and text you the room number when it's all set. That way you're not tied down to waiting around and can head right to it without having to wait in another line.

2. Connect and Charge Your Gadgets

2aria-lv-tech.jpg Building on the work of whatever genius thought to place an electrical outlet in the base of a lamp, all ARIA rooms feature a desk-side panel with a multitude of multimedia connections. It starts with two adapter-friendly electrical outlets plus two USB ports, to flexibly power your devices. Then you've got HDMI, VGA, RCA, and S-Video ports, so you can view images from a computer, camcorder, or any other video device through your room's TV. Likewise, you can pipe audio in through a standard 3.5mm jack or a docked iPod/iPhone connection. And in case you don't feel like going wireless for whatever reason, there's also a wired Internet port.

3. Remotely Control Everything in Your Room

3aria-lv-tech2.jpg One of the best features of the LodgeNet service (that powers the TV menu in your room) is that you can use its free companion app (available for both Android and iOS) in over 630,000 hotel rooms across North America. With it loaded, you can use your own phone or tablet to power the TV on/off; change the channel; browse, order, and control in-room movies.
When you first enter your room at ARIA, you're greeted with lights automatically turning on, the curtains parting, and your TV turning on to display all your control options. From there, you can use the special remote—or one of the room's conveniently located interactive touch displays—to operate the TV, lights, air conditioning, and motorized curtains from pretty much anywhere in the room. The system has a few one-touch options for quickly setting the mood. You can even have an alarm wake you up not just at a specific time, but also with your desired temperature, curtain position, light intensity, and music playing!

4. Be Your Own Concierge

4radisson-app.jpg The new Radisson iConcierge app (launched early April on Android and iOS) allows guests to access a wide variety of services including the ability to order room service, book a spa appointment, set a wake-up call, get your luggage picked up, and grab a taxi.
Every guestroom at Tallahassee's boutique Hotel Duval comes equipped with a 23-inch Interactive Customer Experience (ICE) touch screen display. In addition to ordering housekeeping, dining, and valet services, guests can use them to check email, look up the weather, print boarding passes, and search local events and attractions. Other nice touches include the ability for brides and grooms to record a welcome video for their guests to play back on ICE-equipped in-room iPads.
42revere-boston.jpg Boston's Revere Hotel features a couple of iPads preloaded with the iKnow Concierge. In six different languages, the tablets help guests to access a wide variety of services, from finding a tailor to snagging tickets at a concert. Whether you're into finding food, spa, or sports, these devices can help you self-serve.
Grand Traverse Resort & Spa's New Digital Concierge app enables guests with a smartphone, tablet, or laptop to find exclusive on- and off-property deals and discounts; reserve tee times and view scores at one of their three golf courses; pull up meeting and event agendas; and access a plethora of other helpful information about the hotel and surrounding area.
Guests of the one-year old all-suite Conrad New York (and any of the other 20-plus Conrad locations) can take advantage of the just-launched Conrad Concierge (for Android, iPad, and iPhone). Features include the ability to arrange airport transportation, choose designer bath amenities, and time a meal to arrive in your room right as you do.

5. Have Peace of Mind

The Hyatt Regency Chicago is blanketed with a network of high-megapixel cameras. The security team can monitor all the property's public areas either from their base station or their mobile devices. It's a big place (Chicago's biggest hotel!), but it's under control.
Downtown Atlanta's Ellis Hotel is a posh haven for female travelers, offering a women-only floor with keyed access. Along with a selection of amenities like hair straighteners and curling irons, each room offers an online "kiss cam" to help keep in touch with friends and family. Just hook it up to your laptop, follow the on-screen instructions, and you're virtually face-to-face with your loved ones.

6. Stay Online Everywhere on Property

Long gone are the days of "free Wi-Fi" meaning single-bar coverage only on that one special cushion of the couch in the lobby. The Hyatt Regency Chicago has planted over 800 wireless access points around the hotel. So you can stay connected pretty much everywhere.
As soon as you walk into Bellagio Las Vegas, a friendly welcome message automatically pops onto your device, letting you know you're both on the property and online. WiFi hotspots are cleverly hidden, but there is even plentiful access by the pool. Guests (and visitors) can benefit from complimentary service at a reasonable speed (3 Mbps) or may also pay for faster service (up to 10 Mbps).

7. Find Your Way

5bellagio-app.jpg In fact, Bellagio has so many Internet hotspots, their app (about to upgrade to version two, with all sorts of new bells and whistles) can triangulate your exact indoor location and give you step-by-step directions to whatever fun, trendy (and tangible) hotspots you choose to visit within and around the upscale casino/resort.
Over 100 interactive plasma displays (along with rotating digital convention signage) make navigating the spacious Hyatt Regency Chicago easy. And additional touchscreens with Google Maps allows guests to precisely locate meeting spaces and also find their way around the city.
Eight of Hotel Indigo's locations around the US have been testing Interactive Media Displays, with nearly a quarter million guest interactions to date. That includes 30,000 local secrets shared within the Indigo community, as guests seek to discover the hotels' surrounding neighborhoods and pass along their best tips of what to see and taste. More than 7,000 photos have been taken at the displays, which can upload pics right to Facebook.

8. Borrow Spare Gadgets

7eventi-bar.jpg If you forget toiletries, many hotels offer a kit. But what about if you leave a gadget at home? The "Business Bar" at Eventi in New York can help pick up the tech slack. Grab a tablet, laptop, e-reader, still or video camera, headphones, wires, chargers, or other digital lifesavers for business or leisure. Honestly, with all that gadgety goodness at your disposal, you can afford to pack less—or at least not stress about having every single device on hand.

9. Do Your Business in Style

A perfect blend of fun and practical, the uber-luxurious Aria Sky Suites feature Washlets, fancy toilets with heated temperature-control seats that automatically raise as you approach; gentle aerated warm water bidet with warm air dryer; and automatic self-cleansing dual-action spray and air deodorizer. It's just one amongst many technological advances in the suites, but definitely a crowd pleaser.

10. Take Off

Simple but useful, the ARIA also pulls a direct feed from nearby McCarran International Airport and displays it right on the TV in your room. So you can confirm the timing of your flight. Especially helpful, so you don't preemptively leave the comforts of your room before you have to.
Fodors.com Travel Technology Columnist Scott Tharler is an expert in gadgets, gambling, and travel. He's written four books, hundreds of mobile and wireless tips, and dozens of freelance articles. Find links to other gadget articles, social feeds and lists of his current favorite gadgets.

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Fodor's Launches Even More City Guide Apps

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Last year we made our awesome Fodor's City Guide apps free. We started with New York City, Paris, London, Rome, Barcelona, and San Francisco just to whet your palate. But we certainly didn't stop there. Since then we've launched Austin, Las Vegas, Miami, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Seattle for your traveling pleasure.
These city guides offer Fodor's travel expertise and top recommendations, from sights and shops to restaurants and hotels. And we've developed really useful interactive maps that work offline so you can plot and plan even from the subway or on your flight. Within the app, you can make all manner of bookings at hotels, restaurants, and entertainment via Expedia, OpenTable, and TicketsNow, respectively. What's more, you can get personal with these apps, saving bookmarks and comments about places you loved or ones you definitely don't want to miss. And if you really want to narrow down your options to the cream of the crop, you can select only Fodor's Choice for our shortlist of must-have experiences and can't-miss places.
And there is more where these came from! Over the next couple of months, you can expect to find San Diego, Chicago, Boston, Amsterdam, Montreal, Honolulu, Charleston, and Savannah city guides, as well.
Don't see the city you're hankering for? Let us know which destinations you want to see, by sending an email tosupportrhd@randomhouse.com. We're good listeners—Chicago, Amsterdam, and Boston were all added by traveler requests!

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Best New Travel Tech for 2013

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Travel Tech Series


CES_452.jpg At the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, this trusty travel technology columnist saw and tested tons of new prototypes and products from around the world. Here are his favorite available and soon-to-be released travel gadgets, to help you stay powered up, healthy and entertained in your journeys this year.

1. Trakdot Luggage Tracker

Why We Like It: From anywhere inside your bag, this small FAA-compliant and FCC-certified device continually monitors cell networks to determine its location. During the flight, it automatically goes to sleep. (Jealous?) When you land, it wakes and sends you (and others, if you like) a text and/or email to let you know where in the world it has been and (fingers crossed) now is. You can proactively track the device through the website or optional app, which will alert you when your luggage is within 30 feet of you. Each checked bag requires a separate device.
How Much: $59 (includes activation) + $13 annual service fee
Availability

2. Rugged rukus Solar Speaker

Why We Like It: This tough, lightweight, splash-proof Bluetooth speaker is about six inches squared. So it's small enough to travel with, yet features a large enough solar panel to keep the music going all day. It fully charges in less than five hours in direct sunlight, or just a couple hours via AC power. When the sun goes down and you're not near an outlet, its battery can keep blasting tunes for another eight hours—less, depending on how much you conveniently use it to supply power to your thirsty mobile devices.
How Much: $100
Availability: March,

3. Music Talking Stylus

Why We Like It: The name says it all: This slim, multi-functioned Bluetooth device can play music through its tiny speaker, allow you to talk on the phone (with it held to your ear), or be used as a simple stylus on touch screen devices. It's got built-in volume controls and vibration functionality, along with a headphone jack and a Micro-USB port. From a full charge, it can stand by for over a week or give you five hours of talk/play time.
How Much: $80
Availability: Spring,

4. PocketCell Duo

Why We Like It: This cute, pocketable battery is less than four inches tall by two inches wide, yet delivers enough juice (6,800 mAh, for closet geeks) to fully charge a tablet once or a smartphone up to four times. Through its fast-charging ports, it can safely recharge (but won't overcharge) two devices at once. And to top it off, the package includes Innergie's super-handy, triply connective Magic Cable Trio (a $20 value), with adapters for Apple 30-pin, Micro- and Mini-USB.
How Much: $90
Availability: March,

5. Harman/Kardon NC Headphones

Why We Like It: These sleek, sophisticated, rectangular-cupped headphones from the new Harman Kardon line feature a sumptuous fit, superb sound, and amazing active noise cancellation. (They blocked out the noise of the CES show floor, even at low volumes!) Best of all, if your listen-while-you-travel time somehow exceeds their generous 40-hour rechargeable battery life, unlike with others, you can keep on listening (sans noise cancellation). And their fold-flat design and classy case make them easy to travel with.
How Much: $299
Availability: Now, HarmanKardon .com.

6. Apex HD + WiFi Video Snow Goggles

Why We Like It: These streamlined, water-resistant, helmet-compatible goggles not only take wide-angle 12-megapixel stills or Full HD video, but (with the free companion app) can stream images live via WiFi to a nearby smartphone or tablet. You can adjust the lens with up to 30 degrees of tilt. And they feature a continuous shot mode, for hands- and worry-free point-of-view image capturing. The package comes with a memory card; charging/synching cable; replacement foam; two straps; and two anti-fog, fully UV-protected lenses.
How Much: $400
Availability: Now,

7. GamePad Gaming Tablet

Why We Like It: Already available in Europe and soon to hit the States, this slick 7-inch tablet features the most current version of Android (4.1 or "Jellybean"). So at the very least, it's a reasonably thin, light, fast tablet that can run a bajillion apps. But it's also got built-in physical controls for gaming. And the ringer: For gaming apps originally intended just for touch screens, it comes with an on-screen tool you can use to map controls to the hard buttons. Altogether, it's very cool, especially given its great graphics and sub-$200 price tag.
How Much: $170
Availability: March, Archos.com.

8. Slussen

Why We Like It: With a little help from its free companion app, this tiny, keychain-friendly accessory unites your headphones, speakers, and any i-device. So you mobile DJs can rock the party, pre-listening, cueing, and crossfading tracks like a pro. The software lets you do all sorts of fancy stuff, including synching, smoothly mixing, and—when the urge strikes you—scratching. Why lug around two turntables and a microphone?
How Much: $15
Availability: February 1st, 

9. HAPIfork

Why We Like It: In theory, this cutting-edge cutlery can help you eat healthier. It measures how frequently you feed yourself a forkful and how long it takes you to finish your meal. Throughout the meal, it uses flashing lights and gentle vibrations to promote a pace of consumption that leads to portion control, better digestion, and less weight gain. As long as you don't game the system (say, by using other eating implements on the side), it seems like one possible way to feel better during the journey and not tip the scales too much after.
How Much: $99
Availability: Spring (USB version), Summer (wireless version) 

10. PlugBug World

Why We Like It: Piggybacking your laptop's adapter, this set of five snap-on plugs adds international flair to this popular adapter system. Now Mac users can charge their laptop plus an additional device virtually anywhere in the world. Simple, easy...and two for one is always a great deal, right?
How Much: $45
Availability: Now, .
Award-winning Fodors.com Travel Technology Columnist Scott Tharler is an expert in gadgets, gambling, and travel. He's written four books, hundreds of mobile and wireless tips, and dozens of freelance articles. In addition to his Discovery News gadget blog contributions, you can find links to other gadget articles, social feeds and lists of his current favorite gadgets at about.me/gadgetfans.

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HP Envy 17 17.3-inch Silver Notebook – $1150 After Coupon Savings

Posted by Wajahat Malik Monday, July 11, 2011 0 comments

HP Envy 17 17.3-inch Silver Notebook
HP has a huge discount available on their powerful Envy 17 Notebook Computer!
Here’s your chance to save a lot of money on this super powerful laptop which can handle anything you can throw at it! This HP Envy laptop boasts a large 17.3-Inch display which pushes a 1600 x 900 resolution so you can enjoy HD content with ease. It’s powered by a super fast Intel Core i5-2410 2.3Ghz Processor along with 6GBs of DDR3 Memory and an ATI Radeon 6850M 1GB Graphics card. It’s also got a large 750GB hard drive, fully backlit keyboard and number pad, Dual-Layer SuperMulti DVD Burner, Wireless a/b/g/n with Wi-Di support and HP Truevision HD webcam and microphone.
You can grab this HP Envy 17 17.3-inch Silver Notebook for $1299.99 – $150 coupon (150SUMMER) + no ship = $1149.99!

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HP Pavilion LK237AV dv6z Notebook Computer – $575 + Free Ship

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HP Pavilion LK237AV dv6z Notebook Computer
HP is offering a new coupon discount on their Pavilion dv6z Notebook Computer!
Looking for some great computer power at an affordable price tag? Enter the HP Pavilion dv6z laptop! This computer features a 15.6-Inch LED display with a 720p High Definition resolution for picture quality and plenty of multitasking space. It contains a very fast AMD A6-3400M Quad Core 2.3Ghz Processor along with AMD Discrete Graphics and 6GBs of DDR3 Memory. It also has a 640GB hard drive, impressive 5.5 hour battery life, SuperMulti DVD Burner with Blu-Ray and built-in webcam with microphone for good measure. Definitely a discount not to miss!

You can get this HP Pavilion LK237AV dv6z Notebook Computer for only $649.99 – $75 coupon (MU15947) + no S&H = $574.99!

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HP Pavilion dv6t (LM720AV) 15.6-inch Core i7 Quad Edition Notebook – $805 + $0 Ship

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HP Pavilion dv6t (LM720AV) 15.6-inch Core i7 Quad Edition Notebook
HP has a new discount available on their powerful 15.6-Inch dv6t laptop computer!
So you’re looking to get your hands on desktop performance packed into a portable platform? Look no further than this HP Pavilion dv6t Notebook with 15.6-Inch 720p High Definition Display! It contains a blazing fast Intel Core i7-2630QM Processor featuring Turbo Boost 2.0 Technology, a 1GB ATI Radeon 6490M Graphics Card and 6GBs of speedy DDR3 Memory to make multitasking a breeze. This laptop also comes with a large 750GB hard drive, SuperMulti DVD Burner with Blu-Ray Player, HP SImplePass Fingerprint Reader, HP TrueVision HD Webcam with Microphone and has about 5.5 hours of battery life on a single charge.

You can grab this HP Pavilion dv6t (LM720AV) 15.6-inch Core i7 Quad Edition Notebook for only $1149.99 – $345 coupon (NBP61449) + free S&H = $804.99!

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